I'm pleased to announce that as of today Freelancecartographer.com is active. This is a site that in time will be showing off my cartography portfolio and hopefully will be generating me some more map production work.

Charles Syrett

Posted 27 January 2009 - 11:56 AM

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Hans, that name -- "Freelancecartographer.com" -- is a stroke of genius. You'll get a ton of traffic on your site just from that!Did anyone notice yet that Hans has linked some of us on his Links page?

I'm pleased to announce that as of today Freelancecartographer.com is active. This is a site that in time will be showing off my cartography portfolio and hopefully will be generating me some more map production work.

Posted 27 January 2009 - 12:05 PM

Hans, that name -- "Freelancecartographer.com" -- is a stroke of genius. You'll get a ton of traffic on your site just from that!Did anyone notice yet that Hans has linked some of us on his Links page?

Yeah! That what I thought! Everyone here will regret they didn't have registered that domain first!

Hans van der Maarel

Posted 27 January 2009 - 12:05 PM

Hans, that name -- "Freelancecartographer.com" -- is a stroke of genius. You'll get a ton of traffic on your site just from that!

What can I say... it was available... EXPERTCARTOGRAPHER.COMFREELANCECARTOGRAPHER.COMINDEPENDENTCARTOGRAPHER.COMPROFESSIONALCARTOGRAPHER.COMRegistered them all last August I have to admit it surprised me too...

Posted 27 January 2009 - 03:52 PM

Like Hans I registered a lot of domains related to the keywords I use for Google advertising, and all are just pointers to my existing site:
custommapdesigner.com
custommapmaker.com
professionalmapdesigner.com
professionalmapmaker.com
freelancemapdesigner.com
freelancemapmaker.com
themapdesigner.com
maps-and-atlases.com

DaveB

Posted 28 January 2009 - 11:15 AM

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Very nice site!
I wanted to click on the map images on the left to open sample maps. Also seemed a bit odd that the order there was different from the order of the actual maps in the Work/Portfolio page. But those are minor criticisms, more a matter of taste, not actual errors.

Hans van der Maarel

Posted 28 January 2009 - 01:06 PM

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Very nice site!I wanted to click on the map images on the left to open sample maps. Also seemed a bit odd that the order there was different from the order of the actual maps in the Work/Portfolio page. But those are minor criticisms, more a matter of taste, not actual errors.

The idea is that eventually the portfolio will have more content (well, it does already) than those 4 images. I'll see about making them clickable though.

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Posted 29 January 2009 - 09:10 AM

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After Hugo's succesful website launch, today it's my turn

I'm pleased to announce that as of today Freelancecartographer.com is active. This is a site that in time will be showing off my cartography portfolio and hopefully will be generating me some more map production work.

Wow, congrats Hans. It is a neatly designed site and loads so quickly; did you also adopt some image compression strategy or your hosting provider gives you loads of bandwidth. And I liked your caption of Oolaalaa spherical chair so very appropriate. The Oolaalaa connection for India is the Kingfisher Airlines which has a catchy tune which begins with Oolaalaa. Here I wish you loads of luck and tons of work from the new website.